The Grey Cladding Trend

Grey is currently a popular theme for more minimalist, subtle interior designs, but why stop there? Cladding exterior walls is an excellent way to continue your design theme. Both practical and beautiful, composite cladding protects your walls whilst making for a stunning facade for your home. In this article, we will outline the many features and benefits associated with the grey cladding trend. Let’s take a look…

From a design perspective, it’s easy to see why grey is so popular. As a tone, it feels modern and luxurious but is also still understated, blending well with most other design features that may be present in your home.

Composite cladding is an investment that can improve the value of your home should you choose to sell it. With this in mind, opting for classic, beautiful grey composite wall cladding will ensure that your home looks bright, fresh, and modern for many years to come.

As a neutral tone, grey makes a great backdrop for many different complementary tones. Contrasting more neutral tones with more vibrant splashes of colour can help frame or highlight design features in your home you are aiming to draw particular attention to.

Whatever colour you have chosen for your interior and exterior design schemes, it’s almost impossible to choose a colour scheme that doesn’t work with grey cladding, ensuring that your cladding will stand the test of time.

Anthracite uPVC window frames have become a popular choice for modern homes. Our composite cladding ties together with these frames, making it a perfect match. It is easier than ever to create a sense of design uniformity by treating your grey cladding as the “base colour” to pair your designs around. As well as window frames, you can match your cladding with guttering and garden composite decking.

Grey also matches well with materials like slate, concrete, granite, and steel, which are often used in construction, interior design, and garden landscaping. Extending the grey tones onto to your cladding will help to unite the house and the garden as one continuous space.

As an external feature, it’s important to consider how daily use and exposure to the elements will affect the look of your cladding. Thankfully, grey is an incredibly forgiving tone and hides all manner of dirt and grime that will inevitably start to build up on the surface of the material. A grey cladding board won’t show obvious signs of traffic pollution for example, which may become an issue with a slightly lighter colour.

Thankfully, all of our composite materials are low maintenance and easy to look after, only needing a basic clean every few months to keep it looking its best. Using a hose or a pressure washer with a fan head can shift particularly stubborn marks and staining. If you live by a particularly busy road for example, you may need to wash your cladding more regularly to keep it looking its best.

NeoTimber’s full range of composite cladding boards are all available in a beautiful shade of grey, enabling you to choose between our Classic, Deluxe and Slatted cladding boards.